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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.

God . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and

punitory

A. Tucker.

Adj.

Punishing or tending to punishment.

punitory ‎(comparative more punitory, superlative most punitory)

punitive; tending to punish
God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory. — A. Tucker.